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Watch Dogs 2, Ubisoft’s sequel to 2014’s hacker game switches location from Chicago to San Francisco. We have a new protagonist in Marcus Holloway, who is bent on taking down corporate big brother, Blume Inc., the company responsible for CTos, th...

Compared to the Ride or MotoGP games, Moto Racer 4 is a pretty easy-going arcade motorcycle game. It wants you to have a good time rather than conquer the steep learning curve usually favoured by two-wheeled racers. Depending on your personal prefere...

Two years after release and Ubisoft’s open-world racer, The Crew, still feels fresh. It was a formidable game from the start, getting players to form crews and pitting them against one another. Against the backdrop of a full narrative campaign th...

If ever there was a game utterly deserving of a game of the year edition it is CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. This third outing for the titular Witcher, Geralt of Rivia- monster hunter for hire, is the most polished role-playing game th...

On Thursday 8th September the world famous Abbey Road Studios in London will play host to a special one-off concert featuring music from the forthcoming videogame Final Fantasy XV. The one-hour concert will be broadcast from Abbey Road’s iconic Stu...

Whilst I’ll happily admit to being too feeble a gamer to handle the Dark Souls games, fans of Dark Souls III will be rejoicing on 25 October with the release of the game’s first expansion, Ashes of Ariandel. Dark Souls III: Ashes of Ariandel give...

Adventure game veterans, Telltale Games- responsible for the excellent game serial based on The Walking Dead comics, turn their attention to the Dark Knight Detective. I just can’t get enough of Batman. Behind Daredevil, he is, when done right, my...

Space exploration game No Man’s Sky has been a long time coming. We’ve had at least three years of hype. And, as the result of PlayStation taking the game under their wing, what was once just an interesting indie title has turned into THE NEXT BI...

The Asus Z170-AR looks to provide gamers with an economical, feature-rich motherboard solution, perfect for overclocking and virtual reality. I take a look and put it through its paces. Never one to miss an opportunity to pull a computer apart, my re...

The Solus Project is a first-person survival game with support for HTC’s Vive VR kit. This review is mainly based on my VR experience, but I will touch on the game as played on a regular monitor. The game starts with the player encased in a space c...